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2018-19 Student Accident Medical
Insurance Protection Brochure |
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Welcome Back to School 08.17.18
Dear Parents/Guardians, Greetings! I hope that everyone is having a wonderful summer. Please see the attached documents: 1. Welcome Back-to-School Letter in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian 2. The 2018-19 School Calendar 3.Bus Pass Application Information in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian 4. Free and Reduced Lunch Application For more information, see the www.gloucesterschools.com website. Translations are available in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Vietnamese, or Arabic by selecting the following sites on the www.gloucesterschools.com website: Haga clic aquí para ver el sitio en español Clique aqui para ver o site em português Clicca qui per vedere il sito in italiano Nhấn vào đây để xem trang web bằng tiếng Việt انقر هنا لعرض الموقع باللغة العربية Thank you and enjoy the rest of the summer. See you soon. Richard Safier, Superintendent. Back-to-School Letter English.pdf Back-to-School Letter Spanish.pdf Back-to-School Letter Portuguese.pdf Back-to-School Letter Italian.pdf Free and Reduced Lunch Information.pdf |
Presentation for Middle and High School parents by Dr. Ruth Potee (vaping)
From Police Chief John McCarthy & Superintendent Dr. Richard Safier Kops N Kids & The Gloucester Public Schools present: Ruth A. Potee MD. Topic: Marijuana, Addiction, and Vaping An evening session for Grade 5 – 12 parents on Thursday, May 24th: 6:00 – 7:00pm in the GHS Lecture Hall Back by popular demand. Parents who saw Dr. Potee speak in March described her presentation as a “must-see” for parents of students in Grades 5 – 12. Dr. Potee’s information is invaluable, and her delivery is dynamic and engaging. Free of charge to parents and community members of all schools. Dr. Ruth Potee is a board certified Family Physician and Addiction Medicine physician at Valley Medical Group in Greenfield, MA. She is a native of western Massachusetts and attended public schools in the North Quabbin region. She attended Wellesley College, Yale University School of Medicine, and did her residency at Boston University where she remained as an assistant professor of Family Medicine for eight years. In addition to practicing family medicine, she is currently the Medical Director for the Franklin County House of Corrections, the Franklin Recovery and Treatment Center, and the Pioneer Valley Regional School District as well as the Chair of the Healthcare Solutions of the Opioid Taskforce of Franklin County. She was named Franklin County Doctor of the Year by the Massachusetts Medical Society in 2015 and is the Chair of the Department of Medicine at Baystate-Franklin Medical Center. Dr. Potee engages communities in discussions surrounding substance abuse through her wide-ranging series of talks. |
03.28.18 Superintendent's Report to the School Committee
The Gloucester Public Schools Our mission is for all students to be successful, lifelong learners
Report of the Superintendent of Schools
March 28, 2018
1. Graduation Rates The four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate is the number of students who graduate in four years with a regular high school diploma divided by the number of students who form the adjusted cohort for the graduating class. For any given cohort, students who are entering grade 9 for the first time form a cohort that is subsequently “adjusted” by adding any students who transfer into the cohort later during the next three years and subtracting any students who transfer out, emigrates to another country, or dies during that same period.
Cohort Graduation Rate # of students in cohort who graduate in 4 years or less # of 1st time entering 9th-graders in 2013-14 – transfers out + transfers in
The four-year Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate is the number of students who graduate in four years with a regular high school diploma divided by the number of students who form the adjusted cohort for the graduating class.
Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate number of students who graduate in four years number of students who form the adjusted cohort for the graduating class
These rates for graduation are also calculated for a 5th year. The following table provides the numbers for 2017:
4-Year Graduation Rate
4-Year Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate
Both the 4-Year Graduation rate and the 4-Year Adjusted Graduation Rate for 2017 are higher than the for the Graduation Year of 2016:
DESE announced this week that the state’s four-year graduation rate improved for the eleventh consecutive year with 88.3 percent of students who entered as ninth graders in the 2013-14 school year – or who transferred into that same cohort at any time during high school – graduating within four years. The 2017-18 figure for Gloucester High School is 88.7.
2. Update on the O”Maley Innovation Middle School Search The O’Maley Principal Search Committee completed its round of interviews and they put forward a list of three finalists. Each of the finalists visited the O’Maley Innovation Middle School on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of last week. The candidates were taken on a tour of the school, met with students, parents, and teachers. Survey forms were available for all who were interested in making comments. The final public interviews were held on Monday, March 26.
3. Athletic Director Update The job posting for the Athletic Director’s position closed on March 9, as did requests for members of the search committee. The first organizational meeting was held on Tuesday, March 20; the second meeting was held yesterday, March 27. Search Committee interview dates are scheduled for April 2, 4, and 10.
4. An Act to Promote and Enhance Civic Engagement On March 20, the Senate President and a working group of House and Senate members announced consensus legislation that would implement a uniform civics education curriculum in Massachusetts public schools. The legislation – S.2355, An Act to Promote and Enhance Civic Engagement – maintains the existing educational requirement for civics education, but makes comprehensive changes to the curriculum framework. The legislation includes a hands-on and experiential approach to teaching civics by incorporating project-based learning components, encouraging competency in news media literacy – including the ability to critically read and analyze print and online media sources – and providing extracurricular civic engagement opportunities. Under the new curriculum, all public school students would participate in two student-led civics projects.
This legislation also implements a variety of extracurricular opportunities for students to continue to engage with the political process. It establishes the Edward Moore Kennedy & Edward William Brooke Civics Challenge, which will be available to all eighth-grade students as an opportunity to display civics projects that they have completed in their schools. The bill also establishes the high school voter challenge, two two-week periods (beginning of March and the end of September) where student voter outreach coordinators can hold voter registration drivers for their classmates.
Our main concern is a provision within the legislation calling for schools to provide civics projects for students prior to graduation. This will likely be an added cost and to schools and districts
5. O’Maley’s Evening of Excellence The O’Maley Innovation Middle School held its annual Evening of Excellence Tuesday night, March 27. This is an extravaganza event which includes: · Excerpts from Shrek, Jr., The O’Maley Big Band, and The O’Maley Chorus performed in the auditorium. · From 6:45–8:00 p.m. there were exhibits in the Commons bits in the and the Library Learning Commons · The Scholastic Book Fair; and, · Students and staff from all grades presented examples of their work in the classroom. |
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